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1) Trashy town
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains the challenges that face our planet as trash continues to build up, and teaches the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling items in order to reduce the amount of waste produced.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy--and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?"--
Author
Series
My weird school volume 4
Language
English
Description
A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
6) I stink!
Author
Publisher
Joanne Cotler Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gross out! Join Jay, Elisha, Tyler, and Vanessa as they skulk down stinky sewers, dig through piles of garbage, and bug out with leeches and roaches and worms in 4 episodes of exploring slimy and yucky things.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Seven Stories Press first edition.
Physical Desc
x, 453 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, writer Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and beautiful prose to remind us that life--human and nonhuman--will not go on unless we do everything we can to facilitate the most basic process on earth, the...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
89 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What a Waste! explores the problem of garbage and how humans have dealt with it from prehistory to modern times. Topics include how archaeologists study ancient garbage; the growth of consumer culture and disposability; food waste; the environmental effects of garbage; "problem" garbage like electronic and toxic waste; sewage and dead bodies; and garbage in the oceans and in space. Sidebars highlight people and organizations around the world who...
12) Garbage trucks
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In simple text, explains how garbage trucks work and what they do.
14) Waste management
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discusses the environmental issue of waste management and how to create a sustainable way of living"--Provided by publisher.
15) About face
Author
Language
English
Description
A socialite asks Guido Brunetti to investigate a murder that happened in the underworld surrounding southern Italy's garbage dumping grounds.
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
35th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Don't let your food waste go to waste! With a little help from a family of worms, you can turn all your kitchen scraps and leftovers into rich, valuable vermicompost for your garden and houseplants. Keeping a self-contained worm bin and harvesting the compost your worms produce is clean, easy, and productive with this classic guide, fully updated.--COVER.
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